Muramasa: The Demon Blade has a cast of 10+ characters and is a highly artistic, beautifully drawn, side-scrolling action RPG that is exclusive to the Wii. VGB runs you through both the main characters and their enemies.
Gamer Investments writes: "In a statement provided to Gamer Investments today from Ignition the company confirmed that the rumored September NPD sales data for Muramasa: The Demon Blade, which was reported to be 35k, is accurate and in line with their expectations."
NAMCO BANDAI Partners France today announced a new partnership with Rising Star Games for the distribution of all the titles coming within the next six months. This deal includes, amongst others, the already acclaimed Muramasa: The Demon Blade and the innovative fright simulator JU-ON: The Grudge.
The schedule heralds the return of some old friends with a brand new instalment in the The Legend of Zelda series for Nintendo DS and a totally new take on the Super Mario Bros. games which sees the dawn of simultaneous multi-player action in the Mushroom Kingdom.
The irrepressible UK publisher Rising Star Games have revealed the release dates of the remaining titles on their 2010, including fantastically original games for both Nintendo DS and Wii. Including a number of titles from Rising Star Games' "The Home of Japanese Games" range, Rising Star Games are set to prove that, once again, they are one of the leading third-party publishers for traditional gaming on Nintendo consoles.
Rising Star Games today announced a new partnership with Cidiverte S.p.a, providing a renewed focus on the company's product and respected brands throughout Italy.
The edible videogame power-up is as old as Pac-Man. But few games linger so longingly on food as Vanillaware's Muramasa: The Demon Blade.
As the grand opening of this year's London Games Festival, London MCM Expo was always going to be knee-deep in sweet gaming goodness, giving visitors hands-on experience with upcoming epic titles such as Bandai Namco's Tekken 6, Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed II and Monster Hunter Tri from Capcom. Now three more top developers give you a sneak peek at what they've got planned for October's Expo.
411mania talks about this week's game releases. Highlights include Fate/Unlimited Codes, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, SoulCalibur: Broken Destiny, IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey, and Magna Carta 2 (English language version).
Rising Star Games today announced a new partnership with Koch Media, providing a renewed focus on the company's product and respected brands throughout the markets of the GAS (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) region.
Muramasa: The Demon Blade focuses on RPG elements mixed in with a little bit of action. Sure, the game features a bath scene and some slightly undressed characters. That's about all there is in terms of any other provocativeness though.
Vanillaware's Wii title Muramasa: The Demon Blade is still new in Japan and unreleased in the US, but that doesn't mean they get a break from making games. George Kamiytani, of Vanillaware, has recently announced (via Nintendo Power) that they are indeed making another 2D game.
Video game publisher Ignition Entertainment exhibited four different games at this year's E3. The lot includes a pair of fighters, an RPG for the Nintendo DS, and a side-scrolling adventure game for the Wii.
Muramasa: The Demon Blade almost came to an HD console instead of the Wii, states Vanillaware founder George Kamitani, but because of high dev costs and a 2-D game being hard to publish on the HD consoles, the decision was made to come to Wii.
"For Muramasa we decided to stick with the original Japanese voices and only localize the text," Shane Bettenhausen, Business Development Director at Ignition, told Siliconera in a post E3 phone interview. "We felt the game was deeply steeped in Japanese tradition, mythology, and culture that trying to dub it, trying to make something more Western is really not a service to the product."
The Examiner writes: The Nintendo Wii has had a very strong showing at E3. Nearly everything they showed was impressive. However, that doesn't mean that some of the smaller games should be overlooked.
Thousands of gamers, anime fans and cosplayers of widely varying quality descended on ExCel, an exhibition centre in London, for one of the biggest events in the collective industrys' calendar today, the 15th MCM Expo. Running for two days, 23rd May and 24th May 2009, those few Electronic Theatre readers who managed to miss today's show may just have enough time to organise the necessary travelling arrangements, and grab that Bomberman outfit they've been saving for a special occasion.
Rising Star Games will also be demonstrating upcoming titles including Avalon Code, Luminous Arc 2, Angel Cat Sugar and Happy Party with Hello Kitty & Friends, as well as conducting battle challenges on Valhalla Knights 2 and hands-on walkthroughs of the critically acclaimed Little King's Story.
Ignition Entertainment Ltd., a UTV Enterprise, a worldwide publisher and developer of videogames, in conjunction with Marvelous Entertainment and Vanillaware, today announced the September 2009 U.S. release of the much-anticipated video game, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, exclusively for the Nintendo Wii.